the monday file

Not the busiest weekend ever on the bike front. Picked up a few old bikes and an assortment of parts from Colin B and brought them over to Sanctoral Cycle. Cleaned up the IRO and switched the wheels back so that it's road ready once again. It seems I panicked a bit with the first snow a few weeks back and switched over to the winter beater somewhat prematurely. Way too early for that.

The 2nd MCA cx race of the season went down yesterday at Civic Park. I trust a race report is forthcoming from Hal.

A few links worthy of note:

GTed nails it as far as what makes for a good long race.

Check out the story of Louis Bobet, who refused to don the yellow jersey because it was no longer made of pure wool. Old school.

Pez Interview with Michael Barry, the lone Canuck in the pro peloton. Now that he's parted ways with Discovery, maybe we can even cheer for him.

Following up on Penner's earlier post, the message below somehow made its way into my inbox late last week. I was told to spread the word. Consider it spread:

Gail Kauk of the Transcona Trails Association has asked me to put out a
call for enthusiastic volunteers interested in designing a mountain bike trail.
They're looking to develop the trail on Cordi Hill in Transcona, which is an old
landfill site.

Interested people can contact Gail at gkauk@mts.net

OTT: Tom Waits, Warm Beer and Cold Women